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'Perfectly' is rather optimistic; Monimos is not stated to have been killed at all, and having surrendered on his own recognisance and having no following is unlikely to have been, nor would the sources pass over another example of Kassandros' misdeeds. Aristonous had ambitions and it took a letter ...

The earliest date for Kassander’s coinage is 316 (I prefer 315 as that is where both the Parian marble and Diodoros put Olympias’ death, see the chronology thread and arguments there against). In 319 he was biding his time, in 318 he was a refugee at Antigonos’ court until he was resourced for an at...

Whoa, there! It is by no means certain that the graffiti blocks have been recut, that is speculation on your part, Taphers, it is certainly unsafe to extrapolate from that speculation that the photos have been cropped in order to deceive. It is possible but I see more wishful thinking and plain inco...

Demosthenes mentions an attack on Lefkada or Leukas as it was called then Philippic III 34 [34] And it is not only his outrages on Greece that go unavenged, but even the wrongs which each suffers separately. For nothing can go beyond that. Are not the Corinthians hit by his invasion of Ambracia and ...

I cannot see any indentation on either sculpture they both look like 1 d or e to me; but I would agree that this sort of thing necessarily only gives a spread, factors such as whether the site is the hub of artistic development or a provincial backwater also play into things. Morrow is not saying ev...

sandals3.png From this I think the nearest match is definitely 2b, the bronze from the Agora 275-25BC, but there are affinities with 2a, so let the range be 300-225BC. This gives the lie to notions that the monument was Roman, but poses another question; do the archaeologists not have access to Mor...

Some further dating evidence from the foot fetishists Morrow, ‘Greek Footwear and the Dating of Sculpture’, University of Wisconsin Press, 1985. Pp144-5 ‘The most chronologically significant feature of Hellenistic thonged sandals is the sole shape. Beginning in the early third century, an indentatio...

I cannot see the ARELABON coming about due to re-cutting of the blocks; this was a phenomenally expensive edifice, is it likely that they would use second hand blocks for the outside wall? There is no sign of the haste we find at Vergina II here. The ‘letter bundle’, a much better term than ‘monogra...

Paralus, I was unsure whether it had been said that the coins were bronze, but I do remember that they said they had coins ‘with the head of Alexander’, combining those facts and assuming, perhaps optimistically, that the archaeologists are not complete fools there is only one issue they can have fo...

I thought the Deinokrates link was mentioned during the most recent conference or seminar, but it was all in Greek so I may well have that wrong. Hopefully they will just give the data uncluttered by their interpretation; sadly, I think that is just wishful thinking.

Gepd, you seem to have hit the nail on the head, the arguments are basically to counter the Palagia caucus' Roman dating. I am no sculptural expert but between the late fourth and mid third i cannot think of any radical change in technique, re the footwear I have a book on its way and will be better...

You are absolutely right, Paralus...you are no numismatist! :lol: :lol: Sorry, can never resist an open goal, however, whilst what you say is true of the precious metal issues these coins are all bronze, they are still impossible to date beyond any royal title belonging after 305ish the types are a ...

The short answer would be no, unfortunately. These texts are concerned only with the astronomical predictions and explanations of how to calculate the apparent movements of the planets (Jupiter here). Some chronological data can be found in this sort of text, where observations are recorded at set i...

One gets a distinct feeling of panic from these announcements; a desperate scrabble to try and maintain the supposed link to Alexander. It is especially disappointing when they produce nonsense; as Andrew points out , Kassandros was not minting coins in 319-7, so one has to wonder which references t...

The sources say they were from the whole army so some from all the ethnic groups, the shepherd business smacks of authorial elaboration on Curtius' part. As we have him Alexander sends 300 from each command whereas the other sources make it 300 total, which is more likely. The methods of ascent desc...